By turning computer circuits into unsolvable puzzles, a University of Michigan team aims to create an unhackable computer with a new $3.6 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Pro... Read more
Rice University engineers are building a flat microscope, called FlatScope TM, and developing software that can decode and trigger neurons on the surface of the brain. Their goal as part of... Read more
In new DARPA project, researchers exploit the latest in silicon electronics to invent an implanted brain-interface device that could transform how artificial systems enhance brain functions.... Read more
The best thing to give first responders before they enter a smoky room or the site of a chemical spill, or to soldiers before they enter a hostile bunker, is a picture of what’s inside. Expl... Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced on Friday the launch of Data-Driven Discovery of Models (D3M), which aim to help non-experts bridge what it calls the “data-sc... Read more
‘Enhanced Attribution’ will anonymise threat data, reveal past and future crimes The US Military skunkworks Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hoping to build a... Read more
Robotics Fast Track foresees cost-effective development of new capabilities by engaging cutting-edge groups and individuals who traditionally have not worked with the federal government The... Read more
Program aims to generate applications capable of adapting to change, without extensive reprogramming As modern software systems continue inexorably to increase in complexity and capability,... Read more
Program explores ways to assemble complex ideas from elementary ones given language and context The lifelong human imperative to communicate is so strong that people talk not only to other p... Read more
Administrators at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency celebrated their first Guinness World Record last week for sponsoring the creation of the world’s fastest solid-state amplifier in... Read more
Prototype’s novel approach uses magnetic nano-sized beads to filter deadly microbes and toxins from the bloodstream Sepsis—a life-threatening over-reaction by the immune system to infection—... Read more
Teams will develop and test implantable therapeutic devices for memory restoration in patients with memory deficits caused by disease or trauma DARPA has selected two universities to initial... Read more
ARPA-E is investing in moonshot energy ideas that are so audacious, they might just change how we power our society. Batteries made with chemicals that we mine from rhubarb plants, rather th... Read more
Bio-inspired climbing technology could increase troop safety and freedom of maneuver DARPA’s Z-Man program has demonstrated the first known human climbing of a glass wall using climbing devi... Read more
If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers. That is the premise of an ambitious two-year contest with a $2 million first prize, posed to the world’s compu... Read more